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Former Suburgatory star Jane Levy is set as the lead of NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist musical dramedy pilot, from Jake in Progress creator Austin Winsberg, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, FeigCo, Universal Music Group and Lionsgate TV.
Richard Shepard has come on board to direct the pilot, replacing Paul Feig, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Logan Browning is tuning up to star alongside Girls alum Allison Williams in the Richard Shepard-directed horror thriller The Perfection, about two cello prodigies and a sinister obsession that drives the dark pursuit of perfection.
The screenplay hails from Shepard, Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder. Miramax…

EXCLUSIVE:Allison Williams (Get Out, Girls) is toplining Richard Shepard's The Perfection, a horror-thriller that crosses borders and boundaries. The film tells the story of two cello prodigies and a sinister obsession. Production is slated to begin in early 2018 in Shanghai and Vancouver.
The story was scripted by…

British actress Ella Purnell (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) is set for the lead role of Tess in Starz’s half-hour drama Sweetbitter, based on Stephanie Danler's best-selling 2016 book. In addition, Emmy winning writer/director Richard Shepard(Girls) has joined as executive producer and will direct the…

HBO will air the short film Tokyo Project, from Girls director Richard Shepard and executive produced by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, on Saturday, October 14 at 10 PM.
The half-hour short, which world premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, features Elisabeth Moss, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Shu Kakizawa, and was…

Richard Shepard has signed on to direct Model Woman, ABC’s period drama pilot set in the fashion world.
The project, from Sony TV's TriStar Television and ABC Studios, is a fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey's book Model Woman: Eileen Ford And The Business of Beauty, the recently published biography of…

Fox continues to be swift in getting its pilots ready for production, setting a director on another drama that was greenlighted less than a week ago. Richard Shepard will directRosewood, a close-ended procedural written/executive produced by Todd Harthan (Psych). It centers on the brilliant Dr. Beaumont Rosewood…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Showtime has bought for development Yank, a half-hour comedy written by Sex And The City alums Elisa Zuritsky and Julie Rottenberg and to be directed by Ugly Betty Emmy winner Richard Shepard.Yank, from Fox 21, is centered on a young man who ventures out of his sheltered…

Richard Shepard has boarded WGN America‘s first scripted series, dramaSalem, as director and executive producer. Shepard will serve as director and executive producer on the project, part of his deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Salem, from Brannon Braga, Adam Simon and Fox21, is set in the volatile world of 17th…